Echezeaux Grand Cru - Domaine Méo-Camuzet 2010

Domaine Méo-Camuzet is a wine producer located in Vosne-Romanée in the Côte de Nuits. It produces some of the most famous wines of the Côte d'Or from a series of grands crus, including Richebourg, Clos de Vougeot, Corton and Echézeaux. Most Méo-Camuzet wines are made from Pinot Noir, and are known for their delicate aromatic concentration.

The founder of the estate was Etienne Camuzet, an early 20th century politician based in Paris, who offered parts of his estate to a variety of sharecroppers. Eventually the estate passed into the hands of Jean-Nicholas Méo in 1986, who realized that extensive sharecropping meant that only a small portion of the vines were under the estate's control. He set up a long-term strategy to recover the plots from the sharecroppers who exploited them, with the aim of one day obtaining fruit produced by the estate and bottling it under his own label, Méo-Camuzet.

One of these sharecroppers was the iconic Burgundian producer Henri Jayer. He farmed the estate's land to bottle it under his own label for around 40 years. He retired in 1988 and helped advise Jean-Nicholas for the reappropriation of his vines. Méo-Camuzet now has 14 hectares of vines, including part of the Cros Parantoux Premier Cru site, made famous by Jayer.

Most of the vineyards are grown as organically as possible, but Méo-Camuzet chose not to be certified, so they could treat the vines according to vintage. In addition to the grands crus, there are several wines from the premier crus of the Côte de Nuits, as well as a number of more general village and Burgundy wines.

**If the estate is not certified organic, it has the practices: use of certified organic products, plowing of the soil, intimate knowledge of each plot, precision viticulture seeking to prevent diseases and control yields.